Antihelium Offers Hope in the Search for Dark Matter
[ad_1] In 2010, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider began producing an exotic form of antimatter known as antihelium. Antimatter is that elusive substance that annihilates upon meeting regular matter, and antihelium…
‘Solar Twins’ Reveal the Consistency of the Universe
[ad_1] Sometimes we must look to the heavens to understand our own planet. In the 17th century, Johannes Kepler’s insight that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun led…
How to Use a Super-Intense Laser to Kick an Electron out of a Molecule
[ad_1] For all its possibilities, nature tends to replay one particular scene over and over again: the confrontation between matter and light. It stages the scene in a practically infinite…
A Reboot of the Maxwell’s Demon Thought Experiment—in Real Life
[ad_1] In addition, the second law of thermodynamics signifies the statistical nature of the universe. Its building blocks are not stars, planets, humans, or bacteria—they’re the atoms and molecules that…
Forget Silicon. This Computer Is Made of Fabric
[ad_1] Dan Preston logs in to our video call in a respectable, nondescript button-up shirt. His personal style may lean toward the conventional, but the Rice University mechanical engineer is…
A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter
[ad_1] In particular, Antypas’ team uses their experiment to search for a class of dark matter known as ultralight dark matter. At its heaviest, an ultralight dark matter particle is…